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Find a Specific Article or Book

When you need to find a specific article or book, having some citation/reference details are helpful. When you have details for a specific item, you can usually quickly determine if it is available at the library.

Reading Citations

Most citations or references share a few basic details: Author, Title, Date. Articles will usually have additional details including both article title and journal title as well as volume and issue. Some article citations may also list a PMID or DOI. PMID and DOI are unique numbers assigned to specific articles to make them easier to find. Here are three sample citations that show these features.

Finding a Specific Book

If the Library Catalog does not find the book, you can also search our E-Book collection. (LibGuide on How to Find eBooks) Some additional non-health sciences titles are findable in the E-Book collection.

Finding an Article with a PMID or DOI

A Google search for the DOI will (99% of the time) retrieve the article: the DOI can be pasted or typed into the Google search box. If the full text is not available online, then search the library’s e-journal list to see if we subscribe to the journal, or use the PubMed Single Citation Matcher.

If PubMed matches the citation to the abstract successfully, click the HSC Link button near the top right corner of the screen to check for library full text access. (See step by step directions for full text)